Prof. Paul Mullen

MBBS, MPhil, DSc, FRCPsych, FRANZCP

Professor Paul Mullen is Professor Emeritus at Monash University, Melbourne and Visiting Professor to the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He was recently Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Monash University and Clinical Director, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, and previously Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago (1982 –1992) and Consultant Psychiatrist to the Royal Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He is a principal psychiatric authority on stalking and the co-author of the leading psychiatric textbook on the subject, Stalkers and their Victims, which won the Guttmacher prize in 2001 from the American Psychiatric Association.

He has published over 190 articles in refereed journals, co-authored four books and contributed over 40 chapters, including chapters in both of the standard British textbooks on forensic psychiatry. His other research interests include the relationship between mental disorder and criminal behaviour, the long term impact of childhood sexual abuse, jealousy, threats and threateners, and litigious and chronic complainers. He is a highly sought-after as a psychiatric expert, and was the first non-military defence expert to achieve entry to the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. From 2003, he has been a member of the Fixated Research Group, which conducts research into the stalking of public figures.

Mullen, P.E. (1990) The prevalence of the sexual abuse of female children and adolescents. In Family Violence: Perspectives on Treatment, Research and Policy. Edited by Ronald Roesch, Donald G. Dutton and Vincent F. Sacco. Published by the British Columbia Institute on Family Violence, pp21-27.

Mullen, P.E. (1990) The impact of childhood sexual abuse on adult mental health. In Family Violence: Perspectives on Treatment, Research, and Policy. Edited by Ronald Roesch, Donald G. Dutton and Vincent F. Sacco. Published by the British Columbia Institute on Family Violence, pp27-37.

James, D.V, Mullen, P.E., Pathé, M., Meloy, J.R., Farnham, F., Preston, L, Darnley, B. (2008) Attacks on the British Royal Family: The Role of Psychotic Illness. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 36, 59-67

Smith, I., March, S.E., Mullen, P.E., and Mitchell, P.D. (1973) Use of the SparkChamber RadioScanner for Rapid Location and Quantitation of Labelled Compounds After One and Two Way Separations. Journal of Chromatography, 82, 7583.

Caradoc-Davies, G., Menkes, D.B., Clarkson, H.O. and Mullen, P.E. (1987). A study of the need for antiicholingeric medication in patients treated with long term antipsychotics. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 20, 225232.

Romans-Clarkson, S.E., Walton, V.A., Herbison, G.P. and Mullen, P.E. (1988) A study of women who refused to participate in a community survey of psychiatric disorder. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 22: 19-29.

Mullen, P.E. (1997) A reassessment of the link between mental disorder and violent behaviour, and its implications for clinical practices. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 31 pp 3-11

Mullen, P.E. (2001) ‘A review of the relationship between mental disorders and offending behaviours and on the management of mentally abnormal offenders in the health and criminal justice services’. A Report prepared for the Criminology Research Council of the Australian Institute of Criminology